Sold and marketed as environmentally friendly, compostable food packaging has been exploding in popularity in Australia. But is it any better than the plastic it's replaced?
TLDR: Maybe. Compostable bio plastics are better than non biodegradable plastics. Some of these products currently contain PFAS, which is not good, but should be phased out over the next year.
I’m not convinced. They’re completely silent on what they replaced pfas with. They only say they went to some lengths to make sure the replacement wasn’t worse than pfas. That doesn’t mean a whole lot.
TLDR: Maybe. Compostable bio plastics are better than non biodegradable plastics. Some of these products currently contain PFAS, which is not good, but should be phased out over the next year.
I’m not convinced. They’re completely silent on what they replaced pfas with. They only say they went to some lengths to make sure the replacement wasn’t worse than pfas. That doesn’t mean a whole lot.